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The paternal poverty did not permit his toilet extravagance to soar above one paper collar per week, but in his pocket he carried a piece of ink eraser with which he was careful to keep the paper collar up to standard. Yan cared nothing about dress indeed, was inclined to be slovenly.
I passed out. I don't know what I said, if anything, and the suit recorder has no playback or eraser. What must have happened is that the suit ran out of oxygen, and I lost consciousness due to anoxia. I dreamed I switched on the radio, but I actually switched on the emergency tank, thank the Lord, and that brought me round.
It was written in a delicate, almost feminine hand. She could not help noticing that in one or two instances corrections had been made and blots carefully removed with an eraser. "Midnight, on the Excelsior.
But he somehow wouldn't learn the swine ah, ah!" He grew vindictively black at the memory. "Every night he wiped out what I'd taught him during the day and the eraser he used was booze. So one fine day I dropped the hammer after watchin' him make a botch on a big bar, and cussed him up one leg and down the other. The Scotchman had a hang-over from the night before and he made a pass at me.
Near the bottles lay a rod of glass with a curious tip, an ink eraser made of finely spun glass threads which scraped away the surface of the paper more delicately than any other tool that had been devised. There were the materials for his, their rehabilitation if they were placed in his wife's deft artist fingers. Here was all the chemistry and artistry of forgery at hand.
He took an eraser, made a few swift light strokes on the paper over the almost illegible writing, and "Patrick Henry Keogh" disappeared; on the space that it had occupied he wrote "William Grant," in faint strokes of a pencil. He had crossed the border-line of crime once more.
"There's been enough of that without your gratuitously adding to the sum of human bewilderment.", Average Jones scribbled a few words on a pad, considered, amended, and handed the result over to Bertram, who read: WANTED Professional envelope eraser to remove marks from used envelopes. Experience essential. Apply at once A. Jones, Ad-Visor, Astor Court Temple."
Let us hope that these and more of his unpublished writings will some day be given to the public. He always found difficulty in preparing matter for the press. Using a pencil and a rubber eraser, he often positively wore the paper through with writing, correcting, and writing again.
He took the eraser to Helen May, standing embarrassed in the doorway, and the dog followed and sniffed first her slipper toes and then her hands, which she held out to it ingratiatingly; after which appraisement the dog waggled its stub of a tail in token of his friendliness. "If you was a Mexican he'd a showed you his teeth," Starr observed pridefully.
For some moments the young man went anxiously over what he had already written. At last he turned around, facing the instructor, and saluted. "Permission to erase, sir?" requested Prescott., Captain Abbott nodded his assent. Picking up the eraser, Dick carefully erased the last two lines that he had set down.
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